Written Question
Monday 22nd April 2024
Asked by:
Patricia Gibson (Scottish National Party - North Ayrshire and Arran)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what progress his Department has made on delivering Levelling Up funding to local authorities.
Answered by Jacob Young
Across the three major Levelling Up funds, the Department has allocated £10.4 billion and released over £4 billion to local authorities.
The Funds are multi-year programmes that local authorities will continue to spend over the lifetime of the Funds. As is typical with capital programmes, spending will peak in the later years.
Written Question
Thursday 25th January 2024
Asked by:
Patricia Gibson (Scottish National Party - North Ayrshire and Arran)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that individuals living overseas whose former UK address no longer exists are able to register to vote in the UK.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Applicants will be able to register in respect of an address that no longer exists or if the postcode has changed. The mechanisms for connecting applicants to their qualifying address will be the same regardless of whether the address still exists. In such cases the Electoral Registration Officer should determine which polling district the former address would fall to at the present point in time.
I would encourage any British citizen, domestic or overseas, who needs further support in their application to contact their local Electoral Registration Officer.
Written Question
Monday 27th March 2023
Asked by:
Patricia Gibson (Scottish National Party - North Ayrshire and Arran)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will discuss with Cabinet colleagues the potential implications for his policies on intergovernmental relations of the Scottish Deputy First Minister’s letter to the UK Government on the Spring Budget, dated 15 March 2023.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Last year we held over 270 intergovernmental ministerial meetings bringing together Government and Devolved Administration colleagues.
I was pleased that the Deputy First Minister noted in his letter the positive collaboration between our officials in delivering Green Freeports and City Region and Growth Deals as an example of good intergovernmental relations.
My ministerial colleagues and I will continue working closely with the devolved administrations.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
"Because so much of the Bill focuses on England only, I will concentrate my remarks on amendment 14. The fact that this amendment has to be tabled at all shows that the Government cannot, and do not expect to, meet their own expectations raised in the Bill. There is nothing …..."Patricia Gibson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
"The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. It is not about flexibility; it is about credibility. There is nothing wrong with the aims as articulated by the UK Government, but a Government cannot set themselves a task, call it a flagship policy and then reserve the right to move the …..."Patricia Gibson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
"The Minister says that flexibility is important, so can she explain what the Government will do about the first successful bids, which are now falling short because of inflationary pressures on labour and materials?..."Patricia Gibson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"It has been quite something to listen to hon. Members on both sides of the House arguing for more powers for councils in England while they conspire to prevent powers for the Scottish Parliament—they are better together. After several tumultuous and wasted months while the Tories fought with each other …..."Patricia Gibson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Despite what we have just heard, the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that there will be a 7.1% fall in real-terms wages over the next two years in the sharpest fall in living standards since the second world war. That is before the Government implement their new rocket-charged austerity agenda, …..."Patricia Gibson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Management of the Economy and Ministerial Severance Payments
"There was a time, not so long ago, when Governments took responsibility. Listening to the Minister, it seems that time has passed, as we heard no contrition and no humility for the Government’s calamitous decisions.
The events of the last few months in particular have been unbelievable, even by the …..."Patricia Gibson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Management of the Economy and Ministerial Severance Payments
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